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Opinion

Lindsay Schuring

Bigotry is never appropriate

March 26, 2014

I am the king of rationalization, but I fear I’m about to lose my crown. In the past I have successfully been able to rationalize my utter refusal to tip on to-go orders at restaurants because as far...

Rory Penman

National security should be priority

March 26, 2014

Even as the United States government works to develop plans for the American mission in Afghanistan, Afghan president Hamid Karzai has made it clear he is not interested in signing the security agreement...

Arash Tadjiki

Publications must maintain integrity

March 25, 2014

Our goal should be to know what is happening throughout the world instead of just celebrity and presidential gossip. Not only does the public need to demand a shift in media attention, but publications...

Rory Penman

Mockery relieves tension in a healthy way

March 24, 2014

If you read Time magazine, you may have recently seen the Ideas issue, which included a piece by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, commonly known as Key and Peele from the same-named comedy show. It...

Sally Yoo

Colorado River should distribute water evenly

March 24, 2014

California delivers half of the fresh produce sold around the United States. Over the past year, this agriculture-strong state has suffered historic drought conditions that are scorching once-lush orchards,...

Rory Penman

Changes in voting will increase turnout

March 24, 2014

A few weeks ago there was a group of people here at the U collecting signatures to change Utah’s primary election system. They got enough signatures and the bill was forced into the State Legislature....

Sally Yoo

Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes

March 24, 2014

Flowers blossoming, the sun shining earlier, longer and more intensely, birds chirping in the trees around you — summer is drawing near. The warmer it becomes and the sooner summer arrives, the more...

Lindsay Schuring

U.S. should take a stand against gov’t corruption

March 19, 2014

A group of eight United States peace activists took a brave stand for our constitutional rights 43 years ago this month. They exposed J. Edgar Hoover’s destructive and unconstitutional FBI agenda, which...

Grey Leman

LGBT community: time to take a stand

March 18, 2014

Within the past few months, progression, regression and stagnation occurred within Utah’s LGBT community, as marriage equality was legalized and then put on stay. SB 100, seeking to amend the state’s...

Luigi Ghersi

Air quality is everyone’s business

March 18, 2014

The worst of the winter inversion is behind us, leaving another year to look for more solutions to this issue. Gov. Gary Herbert tried to ease air quality complaints by announcing a gradual change to cleaner...

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